

The 2nd generation RTX is a combination of the new "Ampere" CUDA core that can process concurrent FP32+INT32 operations, 2nd generation RT cores that feature dedicated hardware with temporal components to accelerate raytraced motion-blur, besides a doubling in raytracing performance over "Turing" RT cores, and the new 3rd generation Tensor cores that leverage the sparsity phenomenon in deep-learning neural nets to accelerate AI inference performance by an order of magnitude over the previous generation. With the 2nd gen RTX, NVIDIA is introducing raytraced motion-blur, an effect that's so difficult to pull off in real-time, that it takes fixed-function hardware. NVIDIA perfected a means of combining traditional raster graphics with certain real-time raytraced elements, such as lighting, shadows, reflections, ambient occlusion, and global illumination, to make the hybrid raster+raytraced 3D scene as true to life as possible. The new Ampere graphics architecture by NVIDIA brings you the 2nd generation of the company's RTX real-time raytracing technology. The RTX 3080 offers AAA RTX gaming at 4K UHD at a price you got 1440p-class graphics cards for. This is because the RTX 3080 10 GB is targeted squarely at gamers who want to play at 4K UHD with RTX raytracing turned on, unlike the RTX 3090, which has potential benefits for the creator crowd thanks to its massive 24 GB memory. The GeForce RTX 3080 "Ampere" is being pushed by NVIDIA as its latest flagship graphics card, even knowing that the faster RTX 3090 exists, too.

We see a unique "V3" arrangement of fans on this massive graphics card.

EVGA seems to have listened to what the high-end market wants in terms of aesthetics, and has given the FTW3 Ultra generous amounts of RGB lighting and product style. The FTW3 Ultra in this review is a fully custom-design rendition of the RTX 3080 by EVGA, and is targeted at those who seek a well-rounded RTX 3080 card complete with all the overclocking features and RGB bling characteristic of premium-custom graphics cards. You never know if someone updates their spreadsheet info after their purchase, which, depending on where they were on the list, would severely change your expected date to a sooner time.EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 FTW3 Ultra is the company's premium air-cooled graphics card based on the swanky new GeForce RTX 3080 "Ampere" GPU that everyone wants a piece of. Best advice I could give would be to stay vigilant, and always remember to check the spreadsheet and your e-mail. For instance, I signed up a few minutes after 7:00 PST on the release day for the 3070 (October 29th), and I have seen my expected purchase e-mail date jump from the middle of February 2021 to Januand then back the other way to January 29 2021, all in a matter of a few days. It can, and most definitely will, change from time to time because of more people adding their info to the list and people updating their info to show that they have purchased their card. Since we, as customers, don't know how many total people signed up to use as a comparison to the number who signed up on the lists, the estimated date that you will receive your purchase e-mail should not be heavily relied upon. ***Remember, the list is only as accurate as more people that used auto-notify actually put their info in for this spreadsheet. Scroll down to the time that you entered for when you officially queued up. Back on the spreadsheet, find the tab at the top for the card you are in queue for. The rest of the form is for when you get the actual e-mail that lets you purchase the card, when it notifies you that it has shipped, etc. Put this time in as Pacific Standard Time (PST), just as it should be displayed in the EVGA e-mail. ***An Important Note*** Go to the e-mail that EVGA sent you right after you queued for the auto-notify and use the time it says. You will also put in the time that you queued up for the card. You will choose what version you queued for, i.e. It is a way to, I guess, differentiate you from any other customer that may have queued at the exact same minute, on the day you did. That link will take you to a form to fill out. Follow the link on the first tab that pertains to the version you queued for: One of two links, either 3080/3090 or 3070.
